The palace of illusions : stories /
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| Author / Creator: | Addonizio, Kim, 1954- |
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| Uniform title: | Short stories. Selections |
| Imprint: | Berkeley : Soft Skull Press, [2014] |
| Description: | 243 pages ; 24 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10081839 |
| Summary: | In this collection, gifted poet and novelist Kim Addonizio uses her literary powers to bring to life a variety of settings, all connected through the suggestion that things in the known world are not what they seem. <br> <br> In "Beautiful Lady of the Snow," young Annabelle turns to a host of family pets to combat the alienation she feels caught between her distracted mother and ailing grandfather; in "Night Owls," a young college student's crush on her acting partner is complicated by the bloodlust of being half-vampire; in "Cancer Poems," a dying woman turns to a poetry workshop to make sense of her terminal diagnosis and final days; in "Intuition," a young girl's sexual forays bring her closer to her best friend's father; and in the collection's title story, a photographer looks back to his youth spent as a young illusionist under the big tent and his obsessive affair with the carnival owner's wife.<br> <br> Distracted parents, first love, the twin forces of alienation and isolation: the characters in The Palace of Illusions all must contend with these challenges, trafficking in the fault lines between the real and the imaginary, often in a world not of their making.<br> <br> The stories in this collection have appeared in journals ranging from Narrative Magazine to The Fairy Tale Review , and include the much loved "Ever After," which was featured on NPR's "Selected Shorts." |
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| Physical Description: | 243 pages ; 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781593765422 1593765428 |
